Steve Jobs on the 6 grudges Apple holds against Flash

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Slimebeast said:

famousringo said:

Slimebeast said:
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Okay thanks.

Another question. How can Adobe make money with a thing like Flash? I never understood that. Where is the revenue exactly, since it's free for everyone?

They sell software. Flash Media Server to stream the content, Flash Professional to design Flash apps, the AIR development platform. These are very expensive programs, and when you have a lot of control of rich media on the web and an install base larger than Windows, you can make a lot of money selling them.

To put it another way, Flash is free to consumers, but content creators and distributors pay Adobe, and nobody but Adobe because they control the platform, big bucks.

Oh. Okay, so let's say we have a site like IGN or Gamespot, who have lots of video content, now I dont know if they use Flash but if they did, would they be paying lots of money to Adobe for software, like that Server stream thingy?

Quite likely. There are some exceptions. Youtube is one, I think because Google loves to roll their own server software and because it's historically been a huge driver for people to install Flash players.

To put into perspective how important Flash is to Adobe's revenue, there are more products on their site starting with the word 'Flash' than any other word.